Toyota Has a New 'Manual Transmission' Patent for Electric Cars

The pleasure of a manual gearbox is being able to select the response of the car on the road to your foot on the accelerator and clutch. I don't care if that is implemented by gears and cogs or adjusting computer control of an electric motor - it's being able to shift torque down a couple of gears as I approach a bend and to modulate the power via the clutch as I come out that matters.

It’s not faked. Even Tesla tried it but compromised on one gear to get to market earlier. R&D would have set them back because motors were breaking gears back then, and didn’t want to spend any more engineering and research resources. This is why Tesla is quick but not fast.

Electric motors have a power curve and torque curve where gearing can shift the leverage up or down to compensate for what the driver wants. Drivers who understand this, know this.